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The year 2006 in archaeology includes the following significant events.

Explorations

• Tomb of the Roaring Lions
• Luhansk sacrificial site
• Ancient pre-Inca pet cemetery dated to the Chiribaya culture found south of Lima, Peru[1]
• Ancient pre-Inca tombs complex dated to Middle Sican culture discovered under the Huaca Loro pyramid in Peru; 12 ceremonial tumi knives found [2]

Excavations

• KV63 - the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt.

Publications

Finds

• The Irish bog psalter yielded the fragments of a prayer book found in a bog in Ireland, where it has been buried for approximately 1200 years.

Awards

Miscellaneous

• The Kharosti scrolls, the oldest collection of Buddhist manuscripts in the world, are radiocarbon-dated by the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). The group confirms the initial dating of the Senior manuscripts to 130-250 CE and the Schøyen manuscripts to between the 1st and 5th centuries CE.
• 30th anniversary of the founding of the modern Korean Archaeological Society.

Deaths

• December 1 - Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist and McGill University professor.

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• Karnak
• Pompeii
• Mayapan - recent excavations, near cenote wells.